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Improvement Era, vol. 16, no. 3, January 1913, pp. 238 to 239
Iverson, Minnie
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238 IMPROVEMENT ERA
Among the sixty illustrious men and women comprising the membership of this committee, we find such beacon-lights as Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, Jane Addams, James B. Angell, Arthur T. Hadley, Mrs. William James, David Starr Jordan, Harry Pratt Judson, Morris Loeb, Jacob A. Riis, and Dr. Henry P. Walcott. The chief aims of the National Committee are "to serve as a clearing-house for the nation. on the subject of mental health, the prevention of nervous and mental disorders; the care and treatment of the insane, and to serve as a co-ordinating agency for all state and local agencies interested in such problems." The Committee accomplishes these aims by giving verbal and printed advice for those who desire information regarding the avoidable causes of mental disorder and the general principles of mental hygiene ; by looking after the hitherto unprovided needs of the insane ; by enlisting the support of philanthropists by endeavor- ;
ing to regulate the present cumbersome laws of commitment ; by endeavoring to secure the best methods of treatment by creating a ;
public sentiment in our universities for the further intensive study of the preventable causes of insanity, and the wide publication of results; the relation of heredity to insanity, and the relation of crime and criminality to insanity ; and by providing for the after care of patients in the critical period following their discharge from hospitals, in order that they might be helped to re-establish themselves in society. With such a capable organization, having so magnificent a program, at the service of the American people, there is no reason why the people of Utah, together with the people of the other states, cannot be instrumental in minimizing the stupendousness of
one of the most vital sociological problems of today — insanity. PROVO, UTAH
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A cloud of thoughts, as black as night, came thronging I said, "Be gone! not unto me belonging; Hist to thy cave, mine inner peace thou'rt wronging!"
A flock of thoughts, like scattered light, came straying, As calm, as free, as happy hearts a-Maying; I called them home, and they are staying, staying.
LAI, OAHU, H. T. MlNNIE IvERSON.
LOOKING ACROSS THE BOSPHORUS